"We live within a fairly short driving distance of 6 million people. If other markets can support up to three teams, I think this market, given that dynamic, could probably make a go of it as well," Di Ianni said yesterday.

Unfortunately, I don't see the NHL ever coming back to another Canadian city, regardless of how attractively marketed they are.

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Howard Baldwin should buy back the Penguins and move the team back to his old haunting grounds, Connecticut. With a new stadium (similar to the one the evil Peter Karmanos obtusely and I'm sure regrettably rejected before moving the Whalers to the hockey hotbed of Raleigh), and a dense 3 million state residents with deep hockey roots, a new team in Hartford would be very similar to what happened in Minnesota with the North Stars/Wild.

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